REVIEW article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Children and Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1525568
Identifying Gaps in Technology-Based Intervention Prevention Programs and Ways to Foster Learning and Engagement with Parents Using Serious Games
Provisionally accepted
Michelle F Wright1*
Sandra T Azar2- 1Indiana State University, Terre Haute, United States
- 2The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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Some researchers have implemented technologies to help overcome the barriers to reducing childhood injuries. Many of these technology-based injury prevention programs rely on individually tailored, written feedback to help improve parents' knowledge of home safety.Serious game technologies might further aid in developing injury prevention programs that are adaptive to the unique characteristics of parents. The purpose of this paper is to review these early efforts and propose serious game technology as a critical future direction of injury prevention programs with parents. The paper begins by discussing the barriers associated with reducing childhood injuries and engaging in injury prevention programs. Studies on injury prevention programs using technology to teach parents injury prevention skills are then described. Serious game technologies are proposed as having the potential to reduce injuries and barriers. The paper concludes with describing Home Safety Hero, an injury prevention program, and preliminary data from parents' game play.
Keywords: injury, prevention, Technology, Serious game, home safety
Received: 09 Nov 2024; Accepted: 18 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wright and Azar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Michelle F Wright, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, United States
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